Strange graphics glitch on nvidia 970

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Had my nvidia 970 a few months now and it works great, but there does appear to be a problem with it. When i'm in a game, it seems to be most games as i first noticed it in Far Cry 4 as it shipped with the card, the sound will stutter and click every second or two and it does this for a while sometimes it goes away other times i have to shut the game down and let it rest. Now obviously i would usually blame a sound problem but this has only started since the 970 was added to my system. The sound stutters come along with a graphical stutter as well. It's almost imperceptible, its a difficult problem to describe, but its like some one is tapping the brakes on a car at the same frequency over and over again.

Has anyone else heard of this problem? There does not appear to be a trend on the type of games this happens in as its happened in Watch Dogs, Cities Skylines, GTA5, Sky Rim, Shadow of Mordor. So some games are graphically intensive but nothing a 970 should not be able to handle. I'm wondering if there is some sort of strange sound driver onboard the card that could be holding it back?

Any ideas anyone?
 
It might be your cpu reaching 100%. do you know what cpu you are using? you can try to connect a secondary monitor and then open windows task manager. now put the manager in the secondary monitor and check if it reaches 100% in the performence tab.
 
I can certainly try that, i'm not sure that will be the problem though.

I have:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz

It's a first Generation i7 but it should still be good.

I will try and watch the Task manager for when this happens again, good excuse to play GTA5 some more!
 


Just had another play through of GTA and waited for the glitch to start again. CPU usage seems pretty similar throughout hovering at about 60% usage up to 70%. Ram usage is about 6GB out of 12 that i have.

 


Hmm :/ i dunno, it could just be poor optimisation by Ubisoft. After all we have seen that in the past *cough couch watch dogs *cough